Re: Metalanguage query
| From: | Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 26, 2004, 4:26 |
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how about...
domain > n. 1. A [conceptual] territory over which
control is excercised. 2. A sphere of activity,
concern or function. (American Heritage Dictionary)
The domain of the word is the sphere of concern of
that word, i.e., all those concepts that it
encompasses.
--gary
--- Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> wrote:
> Forgive me if I delurk briefly ...
>
> I've been working on the basic philosophy of my
> language Telona (anyone
> remember it? :) ) and
> have come across a concept for which I can't think
> of an elegant term.
> Maybe someone can help?
>
> The first idea is that a word or phrase within an
> utterance refers to a
> specific entity at a specific
> time, and I'm using the word 'referent' to denote
> the
> entity-at-a-specific-time which is being
> referred to. But the same word or phrase in another
> context could be
> associated with a different
> referent - the word 'house' can mean my house now,
> your house now, your
> house a year ago,
> etc. The concept I need to verbalise is, for any
> given word or phrase, *the
> set of all its possible
> referents*.
>
> I'm thinking maybe something based on 'describe',
> but ... 'descriptum'?
> 'Describend'?
> 'Descript' (ugh)? Or is there something obvious I'm
> missing?
>
> cheers in advance,
> Jonathan.
>
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